Several cruise ships have set out to take the same route as did the Titanic 100 years ago, and memorial services were held at the spot were it sank and in Halifax, Canada, were a lot of the corpses turned up and were buried shortly after the catastrophe (on the cruises: The Chronicle Herald offers this article, and a special section on the anniversary [whose aethetics is very close to the movie by James Cameron (the Wikipedia lists 26 movies on the event)]; The Guardian has this article; on Halifax, cf. the article by the Winnipeg Free Press here). The Spanish daily El País has this article (in English) on the Spaniards among the 1,517 victims.
The Washington Post offers an interesting blog entry on the oversaturated media coverage of this anniversary, here.
Another "catastrophic event" today 100 years ago was the birth of Kim Il-Sung (the Wikipedia article here), though this became apparent only a few decades later - and we do not believe that history is made by "great men" alone...
An aside to an event that has had little media coverage (especially after the king's hunting accident, cf. BBC coverage here): on April 14, 1962, i.e. 50 years ago, the future King Juan Carlos I was married to Greek princess Sofia. (Update: I learned that it was May 14: no wonder, there were no festivities nor media coverage)
To end this post with a positive note: the day the Titanic hit the iceberg (April 14, 1912) also saw the birth of Robert Doisneau, to become one of the greatest photographers of the 20th century.
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